Remember landmine's victims in Colombia

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2004 Halo-Trust Demining action in Nagorno-Karabakh

Another part of Simon Reeves' Holidays in the Danger zone, this time about de-mining in Nagorno-Karabakh. Impresive that some people in the place, despite the mine zone marks, just cross through the area.

UXO weapon depots in Georgia

Holidays in Danger Zone is a program conducted by Simon Reeve. In the episode about Georgia he encounters a couple of issues related to out topic, for example old Deponies of soon never again protected explosives or HaLo Trust demining in places, while the civilians just cross through withought really paying much atention to the signs. As a couple of members of this GE-action team, travelled to Georgia, it was said to us that HaLo Trust was not anymore active de-mining but training the Georgian troops for this to help in other lands.

miss landmine cambodia 2009

THE MISS LANDMINE MANIFESTO
(in no particular order)

* Female pride and empowerment.

* Disabled pride and empowerment.

* Global and local landmine awareness and information.

* Challenge inferiority and/or guilt complexes that hinder creativity-
historical, cultural, social, personal, African, European.

* Question established concepts of physical perfection.

* Challenge old and ingrown concepts of cultural cooperation.

* Celebrate true beauty.

* Replace the passive term 'Victim' with the active term 'Survivor'

Photos von the Action

We are going to explain through images how was it developed. This was how we presented the action. In every table there was one person that would not be wounded and therefor would have to help their table mates. You have to explain all that before the people take there meal, so that they take the "mine" and see if they are wounded an how (they also become extra information about what is the incidence of Bounds in the different parts of the Body and then start the meal.

During the meal, when they see where were they wounded, they become a mark so everybody knows they cannot use this part of the Body. Everybody feels then unconfortability and they feel in need to ask for help.

It was then a reflexion pannel, where the people put where were they wounded and how did they feel. Then it was also an informative pannel with different issues arround the landmine thema, like maps or photos from "miss landmine" contest.

And also there was place to present some NGO related to the topic and collect some money about it:Landmine.de

We had also a critical constructive feed-back from one of the other GEA teams

The results are the following:

• Impact (How did you feel?, what will you do now?-Impact on you)
  

I felt like I've lost my leg, but I didn't understand why some people didn't have any handicap. Where is jutice?

Somehow I felt bad when we were laughting over this being handicaped, because it is a too serious and hard issue in reality

Somehow in this situation it was "funny", but in a very sarcastic way because of the knowledge that in other parts of the world still a reallity

I felt very well because I didn't have a handicap.

The first time I felt the difficulty to ask for help.

I pointed the table where all the people was already injured and I wasn't [was lucky! so I didn't have role (nobody asked me for help)

Although I was the lucky one, I still felt unconfortable to see others in confortless situation.

I felt mostly dependent, not really bad. I think I'll search in the internet and sign the petition you talked about.

• Message(Did the aim get across?, was their vision clear/fullfilled?)

I think the message effects of landmines as well as info on distribution and how they look came across.

It was difficult to follow the message because it was during the lunch time.

The action was clear and it was interesting to read the further informations

• Method (creativity? was it appropiate?)

It was good to do it at lunch-> a combination with such a hard topic with such an everyday thing made the reallity somehow more present

I liked my buddy on guide which helped me to cope with my missing leg

I liked it, it was proper prepared, they thought about everything

It was surprising. It could make the people experiencing.

I think the method was creative, great idea with the plastic lids symbolithing the mines

I did not like the filming/interviewing during the activity

The method was not so creative. I knew something similar before.

• Content (choice of topic?Gived Information?level/complexity?)
  

A lot of information on the pinned area. There was not enought time for reading it all.

Good prepared. I liked cause there was a lot of information.

Very good. Interesting topic. Not so much information during the activity, not overload but possibilities for further info

Good choice of the topic cause, even though I know about landmines, it was not present for me and I was not so aware about the dimensions. That's time!

How did we evaluated the action

Following some steps we were supposed to evaluate the action, our result was the following:

1. Management (well coordinated, some lack of information, time problem of the participannts)
   
2. Aim ("Rasing awareness of realities inliving with a handicap caused by a role play during the one-hour lunch time in June at KH to make seminar participants experience being handicaped and encourage them for further actions against the use of landmines)
   
3. Method (visual and participative, we are satisfied with the "work-out" results, communication between the team members can be improved, coordination can be also improved)
   
4. Content (appropiate topic, information blackboard was clearly structured, the depth of the topic was enough-concearning where the situation take place-)